Unit 1 and 2

All of the following are renewable except?

• Wooden toothpicks

• Corn crops

• Plastic drinking straw

• Rubber

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Environmental problems are placed into the following categories? (Select as many as you need)

• resource depletion

• loss of biodiversity

• resource exploration

• pollution

• economics

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If the results of your experiment do not support your hypothesis, you should do what?

• try another method

• publish your results anyway

• find a way to rationalize your results

If you have a stake int he outcome of results, this is known as

• abnormal

• important

• bias

• rationale

To fully understand a complex environmental issue, you may need to consider which of the following? (choose as many as you need to)

• consequences

• scientific information

• values

• bias

• environmentalism

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Good scientific research needs

• peer review and data

• peer review and replication

• data and social issues

• data and replication

Why is environmental science so important now?

• increasing population

• infinite resources

• pollution

• loss of biodiversity

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Environmental scientists study which two interactions?

• how we pollute and change the environment

• how we use natural resources and impact the environment

• how we pollute and harm the environment

• how we use and produce natural resources

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The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that human population can survive in a living similar to the current one is known as

• inflation

• cost of living

• minimum wage

• sustainability

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Which of the following best describes cap and trade?

• rebates for green choices

• don't have to pay taxes if green choices are made

• invites trade of permits among businesses

• government pays you for certain actions

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